I made chicken breasts in a shallot cream sauce the other night for dinner.\u00a0 Sissy helped me, so she was privy to all the ingredients.\u00a0 [Hey!\u00a0 It\u2019s what we stay at homers do!\u00a0 We make gourmet meals with our daughter-apprentice every night for our family.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What do YOU make?!?\u00a0 Don\u2019t roll your eyes at me, Peeps.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take you DOWN!]<\/p>\n
When Sonny and Hubby came home from Sonny\u2019s wrasslin\u2019 practice, they tucked into the meal.\u00a0 Sissy exclaimed that she had a secret about what was in the chicken, but I quickly hushed her up because Sonny was in 7th<\/sup> Heaven over it and I didn\u2019t want her to burst his bubble.<\/p>\n He\u2019s nibbling on the prosciutto wrapped around the chicken (Yes.\u00a0 Wrapped around the chicken.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What do YOU make for dinner??\u00a0 Bring it!) and proclaiming this to be his SECOND favorite meal.\u00a0 (His first favorite meal is bean-and-cheese-burritos.\u00a0 I can go plebian if I have to.)<\/p>\n I mean this kid was\u00a0going into raptures over this chicken mistakenly thinking it\u2019s wrapped in bacon.\u00a0 He loved it so much he requested it for his birthday meal in March!<\/p>\n Then he flips the chicken over and says, \u201cHey!\u00a0 What\u2019s this?\u201d<\/p>\n Sissy replies, \u201cThat\u2019s the secret I was telling you about.\u00a0 Try it.\u201d\u00a0 So Sonny dips a tentative finger in the white ooze coming out of the chicken and says\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cOh, no!\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 No, no, no, no.\u00a0 Mom!\u00a0 NO!\u201d in the same horrified tone of voice that you might use if you found a bloody band-aide or severed head in your chicken.<\/p>\n Hey!\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 The recipe called for stuffing the chicken breasts with GOAT CHEESE before wrapping them in prosciutto and covering them in shallot cream sauce.\u00a0 I thought it was good.\u00a0 But then again, I like goat cheese.<\/p>\n Now just a word here on goat cheese: You hate it until you like it.\u00a0 It\u2019s unclear whether this love\/hate thing has anything to do with age.\u00a0 \u00a0I mean, Sonny likes FETA for Heaven\u2019s sake\u2026and if there\u2019s ONE cheese that tastes like throw up going DOWN?\u00a0 It\u2019s Feta.\u00a0 So why wouldn\u2019t he like goat cheese??\u00a0 What\u2019s important here is that he periodically tries it to see if he likes it.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 That switch can turn \u2018on\u2019 at any moment.<\/p>\n Right now?\u00a0 We\u2019re still in the ‘nope\u2026nope\u2026still no\u2026Mom, NO!’ phase.\u00a0 But one day we\u2019ll get to the ‘Hey , this is GOOD!’ \u00a0Phase.<\/p>\n It\u2019s kinda like me with jobs.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want one.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Let me check again.\u00a0 Nope\u2026nope\u2026still no.\u00a0 But once I GET one?\u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m sure it will be\u2026GOOD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I made chicken breasts in a shallot cream sauce the other night for dinner.\u00a0 Sissy helped me, so she was privy to all the ingredients.\u00a0 [Hey!\u00a0 It\u2019s what we stay at homers do!\u00a0 We make gourmet meals with our daughter-apprentice every night for our family.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What do YOU make?!?\u00a0 Don\u2019t roll your eyes at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}